This month, another gaggle of debutantes take their first steps onto the dance floor of the Alternative Investment Market (Aim). When it was founded ten years ago, Aim was supposed to be the place where …
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Category: Personal Finance
Which bank will give you 5.2% on your savings?
British savings accounts have been blown out of the water by the arrival of a new internet-only account which pays 5.2% and guarantees interest will exceed the Bank of England base rate (currently 4.75%) by at least …
Could you afford an extra £200 a month on your mortgage?
This feature is part of our FREE daily Money Morning email. If you’d like to sign up, please click here: Sign up for Money Morning This week’s interest-rate setting meeting at the Bank of England …
What mortgage-backed securities mean for the US housing market
Analysing Fannie Mae is like driving without a road map in a foreign country full of unfamiliar traffic rules. The lack of audited financial statements (no road map) and poor understanding of traffic rules (no …
Don’t let your inertia cost you
Are we overinsured or underinsured? The insurance industry is keen on talking about the “protection gap” – the difference between the number of policies we have and the number of policies they think we should …
Tax dodge of the week: a spare room can pay the mortgage
Having trouble meeting your mortgage payments since interest rates started rising? asks Elaine Moore in the FT. Then why not make your house have a go at paying for itself and make yourself a bit …
The return of the prefab – but this time it’s cool
Low-paid workers, first-time buyers and young families currently face a dearth of affordable housing in the UK. The Daily Express calls the situation a “crisis”. Yet no one seems to be able to think of …
The best, catch-free cash accounts
Last week, I wrote that it was time for most of us to diversify in a “new and exciting way” – into cash. (See: The only worthwhile way to diversify.)But as several people have pointed …
Is your gym membership exhausting your wallet?
More than seven million people already belonged to gyms in the UK at the beginning of the year, but a few months in and the number is bound to be much higher as the clubs …
Have you got enough for a party, let alone a pension?
This article is taken from Merryn Somerset Webb’s free weekly personal finance email, MoneySense. Click here to sign up now: MoneySense Well quite. Seven grand is barely enough to pay for a properly glamorous birthday …